Network Appliance (NetApp) says it wants to make life a little easier for network administrators working on Linux servers with SAP solutions.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which specializes in network-attached data access and content delivery, Monday announced new software that automates and simplifies the mixture of Linux and SAP products, including the mySAP.com e-business platform.

In essence, NetApp says it is now offering a scalable, "plug-and-play" approach to the deployment of SAP solutions in Linux environments that increases availability and greatly reduces the need for IT administration. The company says this is a good selling point especially considering today's leaner economic times, when all IT resources - and budgets - are stretched thin.

"Enterprises that will most benefit from this new solution are companies, such as application service providers, that need to manage increasing administration demands and deployment costs without compromising the high availability of their SAP solutions-based platforms," says Network Appliance vice president of commercial solutions marketing Rich Clifton.

The idea is to be able to add Linux application servers to an existing SAP solution, independent of the Intel-based application server platform.

The company says any further developments will allow the complete installation of SAP solutions to be installed in this manner.

NetApp says it developed this solution along with the SAP Linux Labs and is expected to demonstrate it for the first time this week at the SAP TechEd Conference in Vienna, Austria.

The company has been a Global Technology Partner with SAP since February 2001 and has established two SAP Global Competence Centers including the opening of a competency center at the SAP Partner Port in Walldorf, Germany.

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